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TIP TRAINS

STATIONS No.3 No.10 No. No. 12 Ma.24 No. 15] No.15 No.22 N6,18)X63) NON NGH

A.X. A.K. | A.M.) AM (A.M. M. P.M. P. P.M... PMLJ.P.X. P.K| NK |

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Kowloon. Dep. 6 40 8.058.30 9.08 9,15 10.00 12.107 1,15). 2.16 2.58)

Taumati. Dep. 8.49

Taipo

Shatin...Dep. 7.01

Taipo Dep 7,15) -

Market. Dep. 7.90

Fanling Dep. 7,30

Bheang-

shai... Dep. 7,35

9.25 10.08 12.19|| 9.38 10.20 12.30 9 58 10.38 12.43

1,937 9.94| --- 1,35|5 2.36) -- 1.4912.49

-0.39 10.37/12,47 1.52 2.53

10.10 10.47 12.87§ 2,023 3.04).

3.30| 4,30] 5,407,88

4,88 5.48 7,44

| 4,50) 6,00| 7,58)

5,09 6.17 8,19

FROM SHANGHAI TO NANKING BY AIR.

TWO HOURS OF PANORAMA.

GLIMPSES OF OLD CHINA AND THE NEW:

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roofs and

The Grand Canal,

NANKING, November 6. break the suction of the amphibian's trundled-the only wheeled vehicle Two years ago I crept past Nan-boat-bottom. Thump, thump, thump, able to traverse such country. Mad 5.04 6.13 8.08 king aboard a Japanese Yangtsze and away-the water was cleared huts clustered here and there, with steamship heavily barricaded against and we were boring steadily into occasionally the tiled 5.13 6.37 8.43 guntire from shore with great hunks the wind while junks and small spacious courtyards of a more pre- of sheet-iron lashed to rails and steamships on either side dropped tentious establishment.

away and we looked down upon a stanchier.s.

Our captain, proceeding at eight widening expanse of dark gray knots, and anchoring at sundown close-furrowed Chinese tile roofs. each night leat passage of the vessel drna an attack, dared not touch at Nanking or anywhere else until we reached Hunkow, nearly 500 miles So difficult was it to upstream. ..No, it Bass obtain news that only the sight of P.M.P.M... Scarlet Kuomintang banners on both aides of the river showed us that

9.07 9,45 10.15 10.52 1,02 9.07 3.09 3.815.23 8.35 8.27 chan...Arr. 7,41 8.45 9.13 9.53 10.21 10.58 1,08 2,18 8.15, 3.37 4.00 5.9 6.39 8.53

Shum.

Canton...Arr. - 12.05 -

5.49

DOWN TRAINS.

STATIONS No.1 No.3 No.7 A.M.A.M. 走进

No.11 No. No.15 s.17 0.19

A.M. | A.M. | A.M. | P.M. | P.M. | F.M.

....Dop.

Chaton

Shamchan... Dep. 7.178.03 10.34 Showuzhai Dep 205 Bài 10.4g Fanling

...Dep. 7,30 6,15 10.47

TaipoMarket Dep 7.40 6.36 10.57 Tripo

Dep. 7.449,31 11.01 ...Dep. 7.57 8.44 11.14

Shalin

Yaumati...Dep. 8.11 886 11.28

8.10

$11.03/11,27/11,472.50 4.39 5.47

7.18

3.95

11.55 2.58 4.46 5.546.95- 12.00 3.03 4.50 5.58 12.11 8.145.00 8.08 19,16 8,21 | 5.04 8,13 12.30| 3,36 | 5.17 | 6.26 jp ||19,42) 3:48 | 5.29 8.38

Kowlood...Arr. 8.17 9,09 11.39 11.45 12.07.12.48 3,84 | 5,36 8,44

the advancing Southerners had cap tured not only Nanking but Pukow -on the north bank as well.

Up in the Air,

A ribbon of water became visible running inland from the north bank of the Yangtsze-the Grand Canal, In a moment the Dollar wharves stretching mile after mile to the appeared to the right, with a Pre-sters, stone walis of Peping; ancient carried of tribute, now somewhat sident bont moored alongside. Even run-down but still a valuable cargo

mere 300-foot altitude it

waterway. from a looked surprisingly small, and so Admiral McVay's" battle did waggon" the Pittsburgh, which slipped into view an instant later. Then we were sliding past Shang

of the new

6.18 6.42, 6.52 10-day I lifted off the Whangpoohat's world-famed Bund-off to the 8.89 River at Shanghai at 2. p.m. and left the dome of the Hong Kong and

just after 4 o'clock the great am phibian airplane, with two pilots and six passengers, swooped down upon a newly-cleared field just out 7.00 7.22 7.3 side. Nanking's ancient 35-mile city wall-after which we humped in a decrepit motor-car through the an- cent gates of the new capital.

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The March of Progress.

Nothing could have been more medieval than the conditions of the former trip nothing could have been more modern than the peaceful speed of the flight to-day. It is far from my intention to limn an nilegory, for the Chins of two years ago is to-day far from the heart's desire of either patriotic Chinese or forward-looking foreign friends, but progress has been made, and the new internal air-toutes provide a striking example.

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Shanghai Bank," the tower and black-pointed top Cathay Hotel,,, and the Garden Bridge over the Creek. travellers by the hundreds of thou sands have seen it all, but none with a more hasty and lordly eya than China's new aerial voyagers.

Following the bends of the Whang poe, it was hardly more than a matter of seconds before clustered buildings of a little town and a tiny breakwater stretching out into an parently limitless sea heralded ar- rival at the Yangtaze. One could hardly believe it to be a river at this point ao near its mouth. For miles it stretches, narrowed only by occasional long low-lying islands.

Over Woosung.

Suddenly the pilot peered back through his little window and point- ed to the left and upward. For a moment nothing could be seen; then our plane banked and swung, and another amphibian swam into view. perhaps a hundred feet above and bearing down-river.

Planes That Pass in The Day. "The. Hankow mail plane!!!

excinimed E. L. Fries, who as vice- president of Aviation Exploration had a right to play the expert. "She's right on time, too--due in at 4 o'clock and left Hankow at 8.15 this morning. Must have crossed the regular up plane between Nan- king and Kiukiang.?

Scarcely had our fellow-traveller of the airways dwindled to a speck than the pilot was gesticulating to the left again, but this time down- ward. A hill was rushing up at us. As we passed the crest, we found ourselves gazing at a noble speci- men of ancient Chinese pagoda from the vantage-point of an altitude level with its top story. Temples clustered about the foot of the structure. All seemed towering

But as our airplane, bummed steadily westward after swinging at Woosung from its north-east course, the Yangtaze soon began to narrow deserted and still as the country down. We flew low and kept to the stretching out far below. There was left shore. Suddenly there lay a ja startling dream-like quality about walled town, square and centring this intrusion into secret high

1. drum tower · Two main places..

We flew in a Loening air-yacht operated for the National Govern ment by Aviation Explorntion Inc., which is barked by the great Curtiss-Wright-Keys aviation group in the United States. At Langhwa in we clambered in as the eraft stood thoroughfares ran through, crossing Looking Down on Forts. on its wheels by the edge of the at the drum tower and forming the river, and while the Hornet radial nucleus for a star-shaped cluster

of town dwellings which 525-horse-power engine warmed up! we examined the trim interior with densest at the centre and which ran its cushioned leather sents, dome in four points to the mid-sections of light like an automobile, door to the the four walls.

It was plain that much of the rear for baggage and door to the front to pilots, and wind-up-and city enclosure, especially at the down glass windows carefully corners, was given over to agricul there were not only buildings within

wer &

But more modern evidence of man's handiwork soon passed in the endless procession below. Factory chimneys loomed from a sizeable city. Junka drowsed up and down stream. Launches and river vessels Puffed busily hither and yon. At one point, where the river curved about high hills,

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Wheels in the Water. Presently the engine's steady beat rose to a roar. The ship stirred and slid gently down into the water, moving upstream as the pilot operated the mechanism pulling its wheels out of the water and up into the body. Presently we turned duwnstream and into the wind; the engine cried out in a challenge, and the great craft responded with a rush through the waves which threw water in sheets past the windows. Bad one been open should have had a wet two hours ahead!

The riyer was rough, causing us

but in the unprotected area outside below but nakedly visible from or more. craftily concealed from as well.

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above.

At last our objective came in view For the most part we remained Nanking's tortubus wall enclosing close enough to the ground so that its jumble of buildings and open figures of people, and even their spaces, the busy waterfront, and noturned faces, could easily be across the wide sweep of the Yang. discerned. An airplane was still tszo, the city of Pukow, southern enough of a novelty to bring the terminus of the Tientsin-Pukow dwellers out of doors pell-mell, Railway. We curved about over our while ducks paddled hastily else. field: the motor's roar dropped, where leaving clouds of mud besmir-wind whistled through our rigging ching the jade-green of their ponds, as we coasted down the wind: part Everywhere the fertile country throttle again as the ship levelled was cut up into squares, and many off, a gradual inching down," and of these squares were flooded for finally a bump and scrape to bring 'sc Along the edges of the un back to a solid earth teeming with many things gratefully forgot

to bounce with some violence, but squares ran foot-paths on which an

at the same time helping the pilot ločensional Chinese wheelbarrow while aerial voyaging.

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To-day. (November 18.)'

Sale of Crawn Land, Inland Lot No. 2079, P.WD. Offices, 3 p.m.

Half Yearly General Meeting of Voting Members of H.K. Jockey Club, Club Room, 3.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Movitone Follies 1929."

World Theatre: "Give and Take." Star Theatre:"The Kid's Clever." Ten Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, and Peninsula. Hotel, 5 p.m.

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Tides: High, 10.54 a.m. and 9.38 p.m.; Low, 4.22 a.m. and 3.33 p.m.

European Mails:- In ward: Europe vid Negapatám (Kutsang) Outward: Europe vid San Fran cisco, and via Siberia (President. Taft), 5 p.m.

Tuesday.

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Lecture: Impressions of Java hy Dr. G. A. Herklots, Helena May

Institute, 5.30 p.m.

St. Andrew's Society, Practice

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World Theatre: Woman."

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Star Theatre: Kid."

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Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotele, 8.30 p.m.

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European Mail-Outward:

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